Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant and Quarter-Master Frederick Tremlett, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was posted to the Parachute Regiment on D-Day for service with 6th Airborne Division

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5378595 Sjt. F. Tremlett. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (Lieut. (Q.M.) F. Tremlett. Oxf. & Bucks.), nearly extremely fine (5) £150-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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Frederick Tremlett enlisted into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1925; Corporal, 15 June 1928; Lance-Sergeant, 22 April 1930; Sergeant, 28 May 1933; played hockey, football and rugby in the regiment. Served with the 1st Battalion in France until Dunkirk and was promoted to Lieutenant (Q.M.) on 14 November 1941. He was posted to the Parachute Regiment on D-Day and served with the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy, Belgium, Ardennes, Luxembourg, Holland and Germany. L.S. & G.C. medal issued on 2 January 1948, without gratuity.

Sold with cap badge, Dunkirk commemorative medal and certificate, and Normandy commemorative medal (No. 14947), together with a Hockey team group photograph extracted from a regimental journal.